 when your mind is stayed on Christ Jesus. Today, I am here with Matt and my name is Angela and we have a powerful program. Oh yeah, Angela, I am so excited about today's interview because this is not gonna be your typical topic. We're joined with Alan DiDio who just wrote this book called Summoning the Demon, AI, Aliens and the Antichrist. We're gonna find out, is it all conspiracy or is any of it biblical and the answers, honestly, Angela, are gonna blow us away? Matt, listen, when I heard the topic for today, I said, uh-huh, we gotta keep our mind stayed on Christ Jesus here because these are big, hard-hitting topics and I can tell you, by watching today's program, you're gonna learn all about AI and what its role is in Bible prophecy. We're also gonna explore revelation and discover what Satan's end time strategy is and we're gonna learn how you can stand firmly against the enemy's deception and hold on to God's truth. Holding on to his truth in these very big topics and spaces, Matt, is critical for us remaining. Yeah, I mean, just with the digital age in general, there's so much out there which can cause a ton of confusion and Angela, you said it best. The best thing we could do is keep our eyes fixed on the word of God. That's our more sure truth. Yes, the AI thing, I mean, all this news around it, I'm kinda like, we need to go back. Can we go back? Yo, it's wild, it's wild. I'm just like, what is happening right now? Absolutely, well, today we also have Fun Friday and it looks like we're about to have some fun with playing Stump the Host. Of course, sticking with our theme today, they have chosen for us to focus on the book of Revelation for these questions. Let's see if you can get any of these right with us. Question, Matt, here we go. Number one, who wrote the book of Revelation? We know this, John, on the ala Patanus. Oh my gosh, I almost said something way different. Yes! Thank you for that name, look. John, and that comes from Revelation one verse one. That's good, okay, next question here. The voice and the vision from Revelation four sounded like what? The voice and Revelation. Many waters? Is that the Revelation four? Mm, I have no idea about that one. Is that Final Ansler? Final Ansler. Final Ansler. Oh! A trumpet? Oh, wow. Yeah, should've known that. Yeah, we should've used a lifeline on that one. Oh, we should've, I forgot, we have Alan who can be our lifeline. Okay, be prepared, Alan. Let's go. Because it might be coming your way. Close. And our final question here. Who did God warn the church in Thyatira about? Who did God warn the church in Thyatira about? Okay, Alan, we're gonna ask you. Okay, I'm gonna try. This is a tough question. Jezebel. Wow. Oh! Jezebel? Yes. Jezebel, thank God for a lifeline. Come on. That comes from Revelation 2, verse 20. Alan, you have been our saving grace on today. Stop your hoes. Come on, yes, thankfully. Well, as technology continues to grow and advance, its main goal is to help us to accomplish tasks at a quicker rate and improve our quality of life. But what if certain types of technology had a different agenda? And a more menacing one with evil and deceitful intentions in mind? Alan D'Dio is our next guest and he is the host of Encounter Today and the founder of the Encounter, Charlotte. He also recently wrote this book called Summoning the Demon, AI, Aliens and the Antichrist. He joins us now to share more about the different types of modern technology and what we as Christians can do to hold on to the truth. Alan, welcome to Hope Today. Such a pleasure to be with you guys. And wow, that was some tough questions there. I know. You know, when it's live like that, you just like everything leaves your mind. Your brain goes blank. But many waters is actually from Revelation chapter one. So you did good. Wow. Thank you, Alan. Thank you. I knew it was from Revelation. I didn't know if it was for. Yeah, let's go, let's go. Well, Alan, thanks so much for joining us today. You know, okay, this topic is not your typical conversation piece, especially as Christians. And I think sometimes, you know, obviously it can be difficult to address. And so I would love to know, you know, why and how did this come about for you to write a book on AI aliens and the Antichrist? Well, I never wanted to be that guy, particularly the alien guy, because that's a whole nother world you dive into when you begin discussing those things. And like any good sci-fi story, there's gotta be a molder and a scully. There's gotta be a true believer and a skeptic for all the ex files fans out there. And I honestly approached this with a sense of skepticism because I want everything to go back to the word. And I saw so many people in the body of Christ going to extremes that I felt like we needed to just get anchored in the word. And the interesting thing is, the more I got in the word, the more extreme the word was than many of the conspiracy theories that are out there. So I want everyone to be anchored in the bedrock of the word of God. And so we go through all these crazy things from Project Blue Book, Project Blue Beam, Giants is a Smithsonian, hiding evidence of Giants to the book of Enoch. Should we trust it? Should we not? And then of course, we go to Area 51 and all that kind of crazy stuff and we answer it from a biblical perspective. Wow, wow. Well, so let's start here because I think there's a lot of mixed emotions on artificial intelligence, right? With AI and we don't know how to take it. We don't know what to believe or how we should feel. And I liked a couple of things that you had even mentioned in your book about what Elon Musk had said. He said, with AI, we are summoning the demons. We are conjuring something that we think we can control only to find out that it will turn against us. So could you speak to that? You know, how should we take that type of statement about AI as believers? Yeah, people often ask why I named the book Summoning the Demon and that's exactly the reason why. Elon Musk, one of the most cutting edge individuals in technology today said, literally we are summoning the demon. We will not be able to control this. Stephen Hawking said that AI could spell the end of civilization. So people don't realize, listen, I'm not saying we need to get our pitchforks and run from it. That's not what we should do. We should learn how to dominate it. We should get some Holy Ghost spies in the AI camp to drop some gospel algorithms in the midst of all this. But I think the body of Christ needs to understand that 40% of the economy is gonna be upended by AI in a very short period of time. And over the next decade, potentially 80% of the world's economy. Additionally, people are saying that AI could cure cancer but at the same time, it then would spell the end of civilization. So we're balancing a kind of Manhattan project type moral quandary here in the same way when they were developing the atomic bomb, they were wondering, should we morally, should we do this? But the enemy's gonna do it if we don't do it. And so we're in an AI arms race right now and 4,000 AI researchers were recently surveyed and when asked, 50% of them said they believed there was a 10% chance that AI would destroy humanity. Now imagine getting on an airplane and 50% of the people who worked on that airplane said, yeah, there's a 10% chance you're not gonna make it. And so we're barreling into this technology very, very quickly. The advances are beyond our comprehension and we need to understand this threat so that we can pray and so that we can understand greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world which is a prophecy, by the way, concerning the Antichrist spirit. Yeah. And first off, thank you so much for the research that you're doing on a topic like this to address it and the statistics, right? What's out there for everybody. But can we talk about this from a Bible standpoint? What does the Bible stay? Did the Bible predict AI? Now I go into some of the extra biblical sources when they talk about Nimrod, the Tower of Babel and the potential of transhumanism in the past but specifically what do we know about AI in the future? Well the book of Revelation says that the Antichrist in chapter 13 is going to create an image and automaton, an idol that he's going to give life to and that here's what the world's gonna marvel at it will be able to speak. Now imagine trying to figure that out 100 years ago and there'd be no way to even understand what that's gonna be. Today we don't even have to question what that's going to be. We know exactly what it is and what have been the advances in AI. What are the breakthroughs in AI? Language models. The whole world is marveling at its ability to speak and then of course we have the predictions in Daniel concerning the knowledge explosion and the tech explosion that could happen in the last day. So this is very, very biblical. Speaking of which, the Antichrist is supposed to be able to control the world's economy. How is that possible? Well you can only do that through an AI model where in the first time in history, a few men in a small room could control the economy of the entire world through artificial intelligence. So if you know the Bible, then these things don't surprise you. They don't scare you. You realize that the end times aren't happening to us. We're happening to the end times and we've got the victory. Wow. We certainly have the victory and I love that you bring it back to that, Alan. My question for you with AI, so as believers, do we use it? Yes, absolutely. So when radio came out, the church said it's the devil. Don't use it. And so then the world got to dominate radio. Television came out. It had the antenna and the plug, so they said that's the horns and the tail. That's demonic. Stay away from it. And now we realize how important it is. Social media, you guys know how hard it is to get churches to understand the importance of using and utilizing social media. In scripture, there's a precedent for this. When David killed Goliath, it wasn't just from the stone. The Bible said he climbed the top Goliath's body and unsheathed his sword. What is that? That's enemy technology. David used enemy technology against him and we see this throughout scripture. And so what we must do is as long as we can, we need to use this technology to advance the gospel. Wow. I want to backtrack just a slight bit because I love how you did this parallel between the Tower of Babel and AI, Nimrod and the Antichrist. And I think that perspective could really help us to address this or view this from a healthy standpoint. Could you break that down just a little bit? Those parallels and those things that you see are kind of common. Yeah, Nimrod is the second Antichrist figure that we see typified in scripture. And what does he tempt to do? He wants to build a tower to heaven, potentially to create a portal of access to demonic power. He's trying to build this tower and he's able to accomplish it because everyone's speaking the same language. So God says I've got to stop this and how does God stop it? He divides them. He separates them by separating their language. Now what is AI doing? It is tearing down those separation barriers that God instituted in order to stop the Antichrist agenda. Now through AI, if you travel at all, you can use your phone and I can talk, it'll translate and they can talk, it'll translate. It's tearing down those barriers so that now the Antichrist agenda can begin to ramp up once again. And that's why we need to understand this. I mean, it kind of is a little bit scary when you think about it, but thank God the same power that rose Christ from the dead's in us, right? So I want to switch gears here a little bit because this is the topic that I think can go off in the world a little bit and talking about aliens and UFOs. I've grown up hearing about this my entire life. And so as Christians, what should we make of all the rumors or all the things that are going on out there? And how do we begin as Christians to explain this to somebody? Yeah, for the first time in history we're seeing Pentagon hearings. I actually have them documented in my book. Word for word, you can get the testimony of what's being said before Congress. You can get testimony of what the DOD is saying. And it's now it's mainstream and people are asking, is this some sort of deep fake? Is this some sort of intelligence agency? They're just trying to distract us or is it the real thing? And the answer to that question is yes. And the reason why this is so important, you say, well, I don't believe in any of that stuff. Well, it doesn't matter. These people believe it, many globalists believe it and we're gonna see a rise in alien religions. We already have them. Mormonism is an alien religion. I go through the details of that in my book. Islam is actually rooted in an alien religion. Realism, our great friend Tom Cruise is not a friend but Tom Cruise Scientology believes in an alien religion. So it's far more prominent. And then in addition to that, atheism, Richard Dawkins who wrote the God Delusion, he said that he believed it's possible that life on earth was seeded by aliens. And so it's far more pervasive than people know. And so the church has been laughing at this for a long time. We need to give a biblical answer to this and there is a biblical answer. Are there extraterrestrials in the sense that there are people from other planets? There's no evidence of that. Are there interdimensional beings? There is plenty of evidence for that in scripture and we talk about that a lot in the book. Yeah, I mean, we talk about that a lot. I mean, we even see examples of what happened down in Miami, right? That mall and what happened that family's home in Vegas and they're claiming, you know, that they've seen something in person, right? So how would you begin to address that? To not sound like you're so far left field, right? Yeah, well, there's two things. If you wanna go far left field, there's a whole chapter in the book called Project Blue Beam, not Blue Book. Now I give actual previously classified documents, I photocopied them and show you what the government's been hiding in the book. But Project Blue Beam was a theory by Canadian in the mid-90s that they were gonna use technology to fabricate Armageddon-like experiences or alien invasions, these kinds of things to get the world to rally because we've got this common enemy and we need to stand against it. So certainly it could be a conspiracy where globalists are using this technology that we now have in order to fool many people. Some of you've seen those green laser lights recently in the news coming down out of the sky and well, we're just creating maps is what they're saying and it's just some wild stuff out there. But in addition to that, there are real people having real experiences with beings that are damaging them, harming them and they need to understand the truth of what's happening. These are not aliens sent to help you. These are demonic entities that are sent to torment you and there's freedom in the name of Jesus. Interestingly enough, across cultures, Christians don't have these experiences, strong, Holy Spirit-filled, Bible-believing Christians don't have these experiences. And those who do have them, if they mention the name of Jesus, whatever entity is tormenting them, please in terror. I find that to be interesting. Yeah, gosh, I feel like we've gotta dive in that a little bit more because we hear all the things of people being abducted, right? You're talking about experiences, people being abducted by aliens in and you address about demonic oppression. You know, like, what do you see? Like, why do you feel like there's this demonic oppression when people say certain things of, I've experienced some type of abduction? Yeah, there's a whole chapter on comparing alien abductions to demonic possession and the similarities are startling and what really surprised me, I was recently at NRB, you guys are familiar with NRB, National Religious Broadcasters, and everybody who's kind of in media in some way, shape, or form has a representative there. The number of ministers who, if I named their names, every single one of you listening would know their name, who came to me and said, I was abducted, I had an experience with the UFO, but I said, can I share that? No, absolutely not, you cannot share that because I don't wanna be that person, I don't wanna go into that world. People are having these experiences. I think at one time it was like, three to 7% of America's population has had an abduction experience or testimony. And so I go into the book what these things really are because the signs and the symptoms are the same. These abductions lead people into depression, they lead them into new age, as well as a whole host of witchcraft and pagan ideology. It leads to suicidal ideations and we always see that there's freedom in Jesus Christ. So I'm not saying that we need to get on the alien bandwagon and start, every service needs to be about aliens, although I think preachers need to address this from the pulpit now. It's time and you have permission to do it because they're talking about it in the Pentagon and the DOD. But we need to tell people what's really happening. If I could just say this and one last thing, Luizondo who was formerly over the UAP task force in the Pentagon was briefed by someone who had higher classification than him and said, you need to stop digging into this. And he said, what are you talking about? Why? He said, do you know your Bible? He said, well, yes. He said, well, then you know what we're dealing with. These are not extraterrestrials. That's why they're saying interdimensional and they're saying non-human now because these are demonic forces. Wow. Well, we know what the Bible says. We fight not against flesh and blood, right? And we know in these times that the enemy has an end time strategy. And for us in 2024, what's something that you're seeing that maybe we should be aware of or at least that we should keep our eyes open and alert from? Yeah, there's so much fun stuff in this book that can get concerning. And there's two kinds of people in the church like when Goliath was tormenting the nation of Israel. There were those who were cowering in fear. Some of them, it was their first experience or revelation of a nephilim because you know, Goliath was a giant. And so for the first time they're encountering this and become overwhelmed, what can we do? But then there was that one who said, something rose up within him and said, I was born into the kingdom for such a time as this. I was made, I was created to beat giants like this. And there's a whole remnant of people watching right now that something rises up within you. And in this book, you're gonna discover the hope and Satan's end time strategy is this. It is to weary the saints. It is to wear them out, to inundate you with negative news, with one crazy thing after another that you feel like you have no control over. And I hear people telling me all the time, well, we don't need to talk about aliens and all this kind of stuff in the end times. People have more things that they're focused on, they're battling. And my question is, are they, are they battling different things? Or are they battling the spirit of the age? Is the depression you're facing a result of not understanding the spirit of the age that we're dealing with? Is the financial difficulty, is the problem in your family? Dealing with the spirit of the age. I believe if you take the cover off and get this revelation, you will truly understand who lives on the inside of you and the power that you possess in the name of Jesus. Powerful power. Hey, Alan, you know what? I just feel like we could take, you know, this time, would you mind praying for our viewers and for any of us out there that we would not be deceived, we would not be confused, we would have wisdom and revelation of the word of God to know how to navigate through these times. Yes, Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you that those watching right now are here for a reason and they have been born to the kingdom for such a time as this. I pray that every word that they've ever heard, every scripture they've ever sung, every prophecy they've ever heard or received would rise up on the inside of them like a mighty seed growing up to a hundred fold and that it would explode in power and in revelation and that they would be filled to overflowing with your spirit, which is greater than the spirit of the age. We receive an end time anointing now in the name of Jesus and I break that depression off of you in Jesus' name. I break that anxiety, I declare clarity now. Peace in your home, in Jesus' name. Amen, amen. Alan, thank you so much for your time. I just wanna encourage everyone again, this is not an easy topic, but grab this book. It will help to give you a lot of different perspective. Alan, thank you so much for your time. We're grateful for everything you're doing or your research. I know it's gonna be powerful. Oh, it's my honor. Thank you, guys. 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Thank you for your partnership. Hope happens here. Today's interview was so powerful and we believe that Luke 21, verse 36 is gonna help you to navigate these strange times we live in. It says, be always on the watch and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man. Matt, when I read that scripture, I know it's coming from Jesus and he's telling us to be on watch and to pray. And I think those two things you can implement right now, today. That will allow you to face anything that you're dealing with now and that is yet to come. Yeah, I think the key here is prayer, conversation with God, time in the Word, spent with him and his presence. That's what gives us confidence, right? That's what gives us assurance. And, Ange, I'm just thinking that even this word kind of escape stands out to me a little bit differently in Luke, but I think when we hear topics like this that the world loves to cause us to feel spooked out or freaked out about, love how Alan addressed it. But this is our opportunity, right? To seize this type of moment, run towards this type of battlefield. I mean, Ange, in your opinion, how would you kind of attack somebody that's kind of confused or freaked out by AI and aliens and things like that? Yeah, I mean, I think it's just like scripture tells us that perfect peace is his, whose mind is stayed on thee. You know, when we keep our mind on Christ Jesus, that he has the final say, that the end of the book, we win. When we stay there with an eternal perspective, it's easy to approach these things because, you know, at the end of the day, I got victory, no matter what it looks like, I win. You know, so it shouldn't, it's okay for you to experience fear that's natural, that's human. But in fear, we have promise of total victory, you know? And we can only get there if we stay on him. Who has the victory? I think the fear that a lot of Christians have, especially when it comes to topics like this, they don't wanna come off as, let's just use the word crazy, right? Or nuts, but just being honest, all you have to do is, even if you don't know how to approach this, we have a more sure word of prophecy. The word of God. All you gotta do is go to scripture, right? Encourage people with scripture. What revelations are you pulling from? From God's word. That's how we address these type of topics, right? I agree. And like, it doesn't matter how our end comes. Like, death is the great equalizer, right? For this life. But it's coming for all of us. And so we have to be prepared to stand as the second part of that scripture says, before the son of man. So as believers, when these things are coming to your front door and people are asking you, like, what's your answer? What are we gonna do? Oh my goodness. Well, I don't know what you're gonna do whenever the antichrist reveals himself if you're still here. I don't know what you're gonna do if AI actually takes over. But I do know that in that moment, you can prepare your heart for an eternal home. No matter what, an eternal promise to reside and live with Christ Jesus. That's good. Okay, Angie, I just gotta ask, because we're on this topic. Growing up, did you believe in aliens and UFOs? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, I think all of us, like, you know, you have all the movies. I can't even remember. I was thinking of one. Coneheads, do you remember that one? Oh my gosh. Coneheads. I think they were like aliens or something. And so, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, X-files and all these different types of things. But isn't it just like the enemy that he loves to use everything from our childhood, everything that's in front of our eyes, right? Things that we see visually. I mean, the Bible even says that our eyes are the gateway, right? Our eyes are a window right into our soul, right into our heart, right into our spirit and our mind. So the encouragement today is, you've gotta watch what you're seeing. You know, with this whole topic of AI and everything that's placed out there, Angela, in the digital world, our eyes have to be so careful. Like what's before them. Speak that real quick. Yes. Keep your gaze on the things above. Let your mind rest in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. It doesn't matter if there's AI. It doesn't matter if there's aliens. God is above and beyond all of them. So your hope can be anchored in all ways and all times to Christ himself when you keep your mind in those heavenly spaces with Jesus. One of my favorite stories in the Bible is with King Jehoshaphat. He said, I don't know what to do, but God, my eyes are upon you. Listen, can I just speak to any of you that are out there watching? I don't know exactly what it is that you might be facing. Depression, anxiety, addiction, fear, worry. Maybe your family is going through something chaotic and it looks impossible. The answer just looks so uncertain. Can I just tell you, keep your eyes, keep your focus, your heart and your mind on God. Why? Because he is a man of his word. He always is good to his promise. He sticks closer than a brother and a friend. He's Jehovah Jireh, your provider. He's our strength. He holds you up with his righteous hand and he has called you for such a time as this just like Alan had prayed out earlier. Listen, I hope that today encouraged you to not be fearful, but to watch out for the promises, the goodness, the purpose that God has for you and I on this day, on this moment, on this hour. Have a great weekend. Be blessed.